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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Monday, December 10, 2007

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Today's Headlines

• Abortion Typically Unnecessary When Cancer Strikes a Pregnant Mother
• Historic Symposium Focuses on Opposing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
• Michael J. Fox Won't Budge on Stem Cell Research After Breakthrough
• Despite Objections, Abortion Leading to Rise in Breast Cancer Cases
• Kansas Attorney General Sex Scandal Also Rocks Abortion Investigations
• Ohio, Virginia Voters Participate in Special Elections, Abortion an Issue
• Washington Advocate for Assisted Suicide Launches Legalization Campaign
• Pro-Life Advocates Attacked During Hillary Clinton Campaign Rally

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Abortion Typically Unnecessary When Cancer Strikes a Pregnant Mother
by Dr. Joel Brind
The amazing discovery that it is actually better for women diagnosed with cancer while pregnant (called gestational cancer) to carry the pregnancy to term is hardly news. It wasn't even news last year or twenty years ago. About 70 years ago, it was news. Sadly, the abortion culture had infiltrated the fabric of the practice of medicine long before Roe v. Wade. And it was perfectly legal to have an abortion, provided, of course, that a doctor decided that a woman "needed" an abortion. That's why they call it "therapeutic abortion." Up north, the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto has been accumulating case histories since 1931, and publishing the results every several years. The most recent paper, authored by Drs. R.M. Clark and T. Chua15, and published in 1989, reported on the fate of 154 patients with gestational breast cancer. In such cases, the cancer is usually discovered at an advanced stage (since symptoms are masked by the pregnancy), and the prognosis is generally poor. Thus only 20 percent of the Princess Margaret patients who carried their pregnancies to term were alive 20 years later. But strikingly, all 21 patients who had undergone "therapeutic abortion" were dead within eleven years! Full story at LifeNews.com.

Historic Symposium Focuses on Opposing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
by Julie Grimstad
Over three hundred people from various nations met in Toronto, Ontario for a history-making event, The First International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Current Issues, Future Directions. Hosted by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada (EPCC), the symposium was co-sponsored by diverse groups from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom as well as the Archdiocese of Toronto. With one thing in common—opposition to legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide—disability rights advocates, medical and legal professionals, pro-life activists, people of various religious faiths and atheists came together to learn from the experts, find common ground and strategize. Presenters exposed the new directions and strategies of the movement to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. According to Wesley Smith, who is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, attorney, international lecturer and author of several books on bioethics (just to name a few of his credentials), "The euthanasia movement has become much more sophisticated in the last few years." The "crackpot element" is no longer driving the movement. It is now "a professional model" and "an elitist establishment movement" whose pitch is "just a little extra choice for people who are dying." The thread running through all the presentations was the urgent need to establish a common response to this world-wide threat. Full story at LifeNews.com.

Despite Objections, Abortion Leading to Rise in Breast Cancer Cases
by Colin Mason
Rates of breast cancer are skyrocketing in countries which have legalized abortion. But this suggestion--that abortion causes breast cancer--causes radical feminists, who are otherwise greatly concerned about breast cancer--to go into spasms of denial. This is why it is vitally important to the pro-life cause that the ABC link be investigated rationally, documented carefully, and presented convincingly. British statistician Patrick Carroll, who is Director of Research at Britain’s Pension and Population Research Institute, has done just that in his new study, "Assessing the Damage," which was just published on October 25th of this year. Some years ago, Carroll recognized that the U.K., because of the all-pervasive British Medical System and the public funding of abortions, has some of the most complete data on abortion, breast cancer, and other illnesses available anywhere. He used this data, which spans the 40 years since the legalization of abortion in 1967, to see if it showed any connection between abortion and suicide, mental illness, and breast cancer in each of the U.K.'s four regions: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. He also looked at other medical sequalae of abortion, such as the level of mental illness and subsequent suicide rates. Full story at LifeNews.com.

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Kansas Attorney General Sex Scandal Also Rocks Abortion Investigations
Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison has been rocked by a sexual harassment claim tied to an affair he had with a subordinate employee when he served as the Johnson County Attorney. Morrison is accused of urging the employee to gather information in a case his replacement is building against an abortion center. Morrison has admitted to having an affair with Linda Carter, who was his director of administration at the county attorney's office. She resigned her job at the end of November and filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In the claim, Carter alleges that Morrison pressured her in a number of political ways, including asking her to obtain confidential documents in the case new Johnson County Attorney Phill Kline, the former state attorney general, is building against a Planned Parenthood abortion business in Overland Park. Morrison has condemned Kline for investigating the abortion center and filing charges of illegal abortions and improper paperwork after Morrison dismissed similar state charges Kline at filed against Planned Parenthood. Carter also alleges that the two had a lengthy discussion about Morrison's charges against Wichita abortion practitioner George Tiller. Full story at LifeNews.com.

Ohio, Virginia Voters Participate in Special Elections, Abortion an Issue
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Voters in Ohio and Virginia have a chance to participate in special elections for Congress on Tuesday. They will consider candidates on both sides of the abortion debate that could have an important bearing on key abortion-related votes in the nation's capitol. The first race takes place in Ohio's fifth Congressional district and features pro-life state Representative Bob Latta, who enjoys the endorsement of both National Right to Life and Ohio Right to Life's political action committees. Latta faces Robin Weirauch, the 2004 and 2006 Democratic nominee who has the endorsement of Emily's List, one of the biggest pro-abortion group's in the nation. Meanwhile, pro-life Republican Delegate Rob Wittman is running an aggressive campaign in Virginia's First District, but his Democratic opponent Philip Forgit is hoping to repeat last year's upset of pro-life Senator George Allen. Cross says Forgit claims he is pro-life but explains that he is only "personally opposed" to abortion. Full story at LifeNews.com.

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Washington Advocate for Assisted Suicide Launches Legalization Campaign
Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Former Washington Governor Booth Gardner has fired the opening salvo in a new campaign to approve a state law making it the second to legalize assisted suicide. LifeNews.com profiled his efforts back in October and the New York Times granted him a recent interview to promote his cause. Gardner, a Democrat, was Washington's governor from 1985 to 1993, and he has said he will head up a ballot initiative and an extensive campaign for a measure legalizing assisted suicide. Gardner framed the debate in terms of wanting to control his own life -- especially at its end. But, bioethics watchdog Wesley J. Smith says the former governor is ignoring the dangers and problems associated with allowing doctors to have a role in killing their patients. "The potential for--and abuses that are actually happening--from legalized assisted suicide are well documented," Smith says. Full story at LifeNews.com.

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Pro-Life Advocates Attacked During Hillary Clinton Campaign Rally
Ft. Madison, IA (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates say they came under attack as they protested outside a campaign rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The attack brings to mind an assault against pro-life students at a John Kerry rally during the 2004 presidential elections. While pro-life advocates were assaulted in the incident, local police reportedly threatened to arrest the pro-lifers if they did not immediately leave the public sidewalk. The incident was captured on video. Police were parked across the street from where Iowa pro-life advocate Dan Holman was standing on a public sidewalk on Friday. According to eyewitnesses, a man in a pickup truck got out of his vehicle and approached Holman with a club, shouting at him to get off his property. Holman was attacked and struck with the club, officials with the pro-life group Operation Rescue told Lifenews.com. "The man continued to try and assault me in the presence of three Fort Madison police officers," Holman said. "Rather than arresting the attacker the police threatened to arrest me." Full story at LifeNews.com.

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